On an average night in 2019, there were 949 children behind bars in
Australia – more than half of them were Aboriginal or Torres Strait
Islander.
Of all 10-year-olds incarcerated, 80% were Aboriginal children.
Aboriginal kids make up only 6% of all 10- to 17-year-olds in Australia but they are 54% of the juvenile detention population.
They are jailed at 22 times the rate of non-Indigenous young people. And they are jailed younger. In 2019 nearly 65% of children under 14 in detention were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
Study after study has shown that contact with the criminal justice system
at a young age can do lasting damage to children, their families and
communities. […]
According to a 2016 report by the Sentencing Advisory Council, 94% of children in detention aged 10 to 12 returned to prison before they were 18.
[…]
Aboriginal children are also disproportionately targeted by punitive
policing. In New South Wales, for example, Indigenous kids are significantly overrepresented in the number of strip-searches conducted by police.
NSW police have also been operating a secretive blacklist
known as the suspect target management plan, or STMP, largely made up
of Indigenous children – 72% – deemed to be at risk of committing
crimes.
The NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission
found that many of the children, some as young as nine, had not been
charged with a crime and were not aware they were a target.
Between 2017 and 2019 the state’s highest concentration of kids subject to the STMP were in the western Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt.
At 13 [I.S.]
was strip-searched by police on his way to the shops in the suburb.
[I/S/] says he was told to strip down to his underpants on the side of a
busy road.
“It was embarrassing,” he says. “I didn’t know what to do so I just complied.” [I.S.] doesn’t know if he was on the STMP but says there were periods
when police stopped him almost daily. One day he was stopped twice, by
the same officers. The first time he was strip-searched. […]
Increasing the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14
could lead to a decrease of about 15% in the number of young Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people in detention, according to the 2020 Productivity Commission report […].
But governments – with the exception of the Australian Capital Territory’s – are reluctant to act
[…].
Queensland’s attorney general […] said bluntly: “There are
no plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Queensland.”
[…]
All but one of the 32 kids now in juvenile detention in the NT are Aboriginal boys.
There have been numerous times over the past decade when every single child in detention in the territory is Aboriginal.
The restorative justice program is available in 12 NSW local courts. The
magistrate works with Aboriginal elders, victims and the offender’s
family to determine an appropriate sentence. […] Some states also have their version of the NSW youth Koori court […]. But the youth worker [D.D.] says […] “I want to stop people from ever going to court. I want to stop us focusing on having culturally safe courts, when really we need to have culturally safe communities […].” [T.W.] says therapeutic approaches are needed
[…].
“When do we lose our compassion for a child who is being abused or traumatized […]?” she asks. “Well, effectively Australia says we lose that compassion at [age] 10.”
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Headline and text published by: Lorena Allam and Laura Murphy-Oates. “Australia’s anguish: the Indigenous kids trapped behind bars.” Guardian Australia. 17 January 2021.
- the can control skills (the writing style & the way the letters fade from top to bottom) make it clear that the writer was an experienced graffiti artist
- the phrase “we want everything” is directly lifted from a book title by the relatively obscure italian anarchist nanni balestrini and i just don’t know why a fed would do that much in-depth research on anarchism for a fake graffiti job
- it’s not implausible at all that a random anarchist would be pissed enough at nancy pelosi to tag her house
- if you spray paint toward a ledge at an angle the spray paint is going to hit the ledge and stop because that is how particles work
- what would be the point of faking a message that’s actually pretty relatable instead of something more hyperbolic and aggressive to alienate people from the cause (which is generally the point of false flag operations)?
- why do people think this one is fake but the mitch mcconnell one is not? is it the pig’s head? that was admittedly gross
- people paint circle a’s in all kinds of fucky ways i see em out in the world all the time
- why do you want it to be fake so bad…they all deserve to have their houses vandalized every day at the very least but ideally they deserve much worse than that
- politicians should feel lucky that spray paint is thus far the only consequence for their actions after what they’ve done to us and they should be appropriately concerned about the possibility of being torch-and-pitchforked
- fuck nancy pelosi
concerned about how many people i’ve seen uncritically reblog a “there’s no paint on the bricks!!” post.
who does it serve when you spread rumors and baseless speculation? what is the benefit of saying it was a false flag op with no actual evidence?
is it because you don’t want people to think we’re angry or that we want everything? you should be angry and you should want everything for us and they should know it.
is it because you think of nancy pelosi as a lesser enemy than mitch mcconnell? she isn’t.
is it because you think we shouldn’t be vandalizing politicians’ houses at all? because we’ll never be given anything by asking nicely and vandalism is the absolute least we should be prepared to do in terms of dissent. i personally would love to see more politicians’ homes vandalized bc they still feel untouchable even after everything they’ve done to us and nothing short of direct action will make them uncomfortable enough to concede anything to us. i don’t even really care about the off-chance that it is fake because either way it sets a good example.
why do you actively want it to be fake? why would it be better if were?
why does an op seem more likely to you than legitimate anger in the wake of injustice?
did you think it through or did you see a post about it and take it at face value?
did you reblog a picture of mitch mcconnell’s address this week?
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Egypt unveils ancient funerary temple south of Cairo
Egypt’s former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass on Sunday revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo.
Hawass told reporters at the Saqqara necropolis that archaeologists unearthed the temple of Queen Neit, wife of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty that ruled Egypt from 2323 B.C. till 2150 B.C.
Archaeologists also found a 4-meter (13-foot) long papyrus that includes texts of the Book of the Dead, which is a collection of spells aimed at directing the dead through the underworld in ancient Egypt, he said.
Hawass said archaeologists also unearthed burial wells, coffins and mummies dating back to the New Kingdom that ruled Egypt between about 1570 B.C. and 1069 B.C. Read more.
On this day, 18 January 1958, the Battle of Hayes Pond took place near Maxton, North Carolina, when Native Americans routed a rally of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan considered the local Lumbee tribe as a “mongrel” race of “half n-words”, were unhappy with interracial relationships occurring with white men, and thought due to their small numbers and marginalised status they would be an easy target. So they began by burning a cross on the lawn of a Lumbee woman who was dating a white man. Their activities escalated and culminated in a rally on 18 January intended at ending “race mixing” once and for all, at which they declared they would have 5,000 attendees.
On the day, they only mustered 50-100 white supremacists, while 500 Lumbee, led by World War II veterans, armed themselves with shotguns, clubs and rocks turned out to oppose them. The Native Americans opened fire and attacked, lightly wounding 4 Klansmen, who returned fire but failed to hit anyone.
The KKK were totally defeated and forced to flee, while the Lumbee took their speaking equipment and burned their Klan outfits and banners on a makeshift bonfire until police arrived and teargassed the revellers. In the wake of the incident, public sentiment swung against the KKK, and the local leader was later convicted for incitement to riot and jailed for two years.
The humiliation ended Klan activity in the local area, and the incident is celebrated each year as a Lumbee holiday.
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“The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities. The bombs in Vietnam [Syria, Donbass, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc.] explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.” - Address to April 15 Antiwar Mobilization in NYC, April 15, 1967
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government.” - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, April 4, 1967
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